Greitemeyer and His Colleagues Have Conducted a Number of Studies

question 188

Multiple Choice

Greitemeyer and his colleagues have conducted a number of studies to examine the effects of video games on helping. They have some participants play a prosocial video game and others play a neutral video game. The dependent variable of this research is the __________.

• A) degree of helping
• B) type of video game
• C) participants
• D) temperature of the room where they play the game

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